Journal 1- Fibre Optics
Fibre optic technology offers many advantages when used in medical applications.
a. describe how optical fibre may be used in medical applications
b. identify the traditional medical techniques that optical fibres might replace
c. Evaluate the benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine
a. Optical fibres are used in endoscopes. These flexible tubes contain optical fibresand can be passed via the mouth into the digestive system to provide doctors with images(magnified around four times) of the stomach intestinal lining. Tumours that would be impossible to treat may be destroyed by laser light sent down an optic fibre cable inserterd nearby.
b.Optical fibres could replace using a knive to cut open a tumour and destroy it from there but now you can just laser it and its gone. Also having to put a large camera or light down there to try and retrieve images and light.
c.Well now it makes things alot easier for the patient and also the doctor constructing the surgery. Fibre optics can limit the number of unnecessary surgeries that take place as well as examining the problem more accurately.
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